Dans la continuité de l’incroyable mur d’escalade imaginé et conçu pour équiper l’une des salles du club de fitness tokyoïte Illoiha Omotesando, un petit clin d’oeil pour cette autre récente réalisation du très talentueux studio de design et d’architecture japonais Nendo qui a créé cette étonnante installation à partir de près de 4 000 chapeaux suspendus pas des fils comme s’ils flottaient dans les airs. Présentée dans le cadre de la rétrospective portant sur l’oeuvre d’Akio Hirata, découvrez tous les détails en images dans la suite !

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Description originale

The graphic and exhibition design for the first major Japanese retrospective of internationally-known milliner Hirata Akio’s seventy years of work. For the exhibition space, we wanted to make Hirata’s hats stand out. The mass-produced non-woven fabric hats we created for the space are the antithesis of Hirata’s carefully handmade hats, and bring them into sharp relief through dramatic contrast. Hirata oversaw the shape of these hats, which float and stream through the exhibition like ghosts or shells of the real hats exhibited. Some are exhibition stands; others become walls, ceilings and diffusers to scatter light through the space. Flooded with roughly 4000 of these ‘ghost hats’ as though shrouded in a cloud, the exhibition space softly invites visitors inside. There, they find not clear-cut paths to follow but an environment in which they can wander and discover Hirata’s creations as they like, as a way of physically experiencing the creative freedom that underlies Hirata’s work.

Credits photos by Daici Ano – via
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